On Thu, 20 Dec 2012, Bill Hoffman wrote:

> Just to close the loop on this we found the problem. It is the eset nod32
> antivirus software that is causing the problem. They are aware of the
> problem, and have a fix of sorts that involves removing some recent MS
> updates.
>
> Thanks for helping out.

Ouch, what a terrible side-effect! Thanks anyway for reporting back about the
cause.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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